SANNATI KSHETRA SRI CHANDRALAAMBAA

SRI BHASURAANANDANAATHA

SRI BHAASKARA RAAYAAS

(SRI BHASURAANANDANAATHA)

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Srigurubhyo namah

Sri chandralaambaayai namah

Aachamana
Let our sthoola deha having aanava mala be purified by knowing aatma tatwa Let our sookshma deha having maayika mala be purified by knowing vidyaa tatwa Let our kaarana deha having kaarmika mala be purified by knowing shiva tatwa Let our mahaa kaarana deha having all malas be purified by knowing(all) sarwa tatwas

GURUMANDALA
Gurutraya mahagaNapati peeThatraya Bhairava Siddhougha Batukatraya Padmayugala Dootikrama manDala Veeraadyashta chatushkashashTi Navaka Veeraavali Sheeman malini mantraraja

 GRUPAADUKA
I bow at the feet ofMy Shreeguru Shree Subhaganandanath My paramaguru Shree chakraanandanath My parameshThiguru Shree Dheeraanandanath My paraatparaguru Shree Bhaasuraanandanath

Shree Subhaganandanath shreegurubhyo namah.

Shree chakraanandanath Paramagurubhyo namah.

Shree Dheeraanandanath Parameshthigurubhyo namah.

Shree Bhaasuraanandanath Paraatparagurubhyo namah.

sankalpa
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BHASKARA RAYAS KULADAIVA VITTHALA

Sri Raya is from a deshashtha family of Bijapur Karnataka. His KULADAIVA is

VITTHALA. He built vitthal temple at Moolamalla in Mahaboobnagar dist. A.P.

This is on the bank of river Krishna (in Bhaskaravilasam this place is written as Moolahruda). This Vitthala temple being kuladevatha of Sri Bhaskararaya, is built by him as evident from the shloka written on the frame of the door of the temple. The shloka reads like thisBhaaratyupaakhya gambeeraraja deekshita soorijah ! Bhaskarah sthaapayaamaasa vitthalam kuladaivatam !! ! !!

VITTHAL MANDIR at Moolamalla

It is also evident from the above sloka extracted from Bhaskaravilasm-sri rayas jeevana charitra written by his shishya Umaananandanath.

Here is sthala vishesha. Soorya Upasana at Moolimadu:- The queen of Chandra sena Maharaja enquired one Sri Narayana Maharaj, a great sadhak and disciple of Sri Bhaskararaya as to whether she may get male child or female as she was pregnant at that time. Sri Narayana Maharaj predicted a female child. On a later day Sri Bhaskararaya also came there and the queen asked Raya the same question since she was not happy with the prediction of a female child. Sri Bhaskararaya predicted that she may get a male child. The queen immediately pointed out the controversial predictions. Sri Bhaskararaya got annoyed and said the prediction given by Narayana Maharaj cannot go wrong since he was a siddha purusha and his own disciple as well nor his(Rayas) prediction. Thereby she got a very unhealthy weak child without any physical/mental progress. Again after some years Sri Bhaskararaya once again visited the place and Chandra Sena Maharaja requested him to cure his child since he was the only son. There are many more incidents .

Therefore he meditated upon Soorya Bhagavan near the bank of the river Krishna to cure the child. During the stay there Sri Bhaskararaya had to come to the bank of the river for daily Arghya Pradana and his disciples pointed out this difficulty and enquired for the remedy. Sri Bhaskararaya told for fun why dont we ask river Krishna to turn towards their place to perform Arghya Pradana without making such avoidable travel. The disciples surprised to hear and said his guru is capable of doing anything. And this act was also possible for him. Sri Bhaskararaya did it by praying river Krishna. Therefore the place is called Moolimadu which means turning point of water flow in Kannada. The place is now called Moolamalla with similar meaning in Telugu as this place is now in Andhra Pradesh. In Bhaskaravilasam, the place is called Moolahruda.

SANNATI KSHETRA SRI CHANDRALAAMBAA

SRI BHASURAANANDANAATHA

SRI BHAASKARA RAAYAAS

(SRI BHASURAANANDANAATHA)

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Bhaskara vilasam

Bhaskara vilasam

Shree chandralamba Sannati

Now let us come to the subject matter about Shree chandralamba SannatiShe is kuladevi of sri Bhaskara raya. Let us bow to her. Sannati This is a village in Gulbarga district of northern Karnataka near Nalwar railway station on Bombay-madras line between Raichur and Gulbarga stations. Here Sri Chandralaparameshwari devasthanam in Sri Chakrakara is seen which is constructed by Sri Bhaskararaya as evident from above shloka of Bhaskara vilasam.

Shree chandralamba Sannati

This temple is on the bank of river Bheema which is Dakshina vahini.On the southern side to chandralamba Mahasaraswati, northen side Mahakali are seen.Similarly Dwadasha jyotirlinga and Anjaneya are available.Opposite to the temple markandeya temple and Martanda bhairavas kunda can be visited.

Bhaskararaya at Sannati
During my visit to Sannati I met one of the devotees- Sri Kishan rao Dornahalli who narrated the following about sri Raya at Sannati.After completing ashtadasha vidya at Gurukula at Lokapalli with his vidyaguru Sri Narasimha dori he had come here for darshan.There Devi gave sthanapaana which made him so intelligent and all knowledgeful.During those time there was topmost University in Sannati.Sri Raya came here seeking a teacher post.He was told that even though he has sufficient knowledge on all matters including srividya he needs to be Poornaabhishikta by a guru.This made him to search guru at Surat-Sri Shivadatta shukla. (The photos below are of Sannati kshetra during release of my book BHASKARA RAYA)

Chandrala mahatmya
In addition , sri Raya also got written a commentary on Chandralamba mahatmyam.This also can be confirmed from Bhaskaravilasam

Chandrala mahatmya
This grantha has 5 skandhas.
Kshetra,setu,bhraamara,upaasana and teertha skandha Sri Raya selected upasana skanda which is very useful for sadhakas. It has 21 parts including matrochchaara,kavacha,daily rituals-archana etc. Chandrala chakra for archana is also explained.

Chandrala mahatmya
Bhaskara raya quotes in his several works that There are three roopas of any devata or gurusthoola, sookshma and para. Sthoola roopa as in respective dhyana shlokas. Sookshma roopa is its mantra. Para is vaasanaatmakam.

Chandrala mahatmya
Sthoola roopa of Chandralamba can be seen in the following shloka

! !!

shloka no.21 chapter no.1 of upaasanaa skandha

Chandrala mahatmya
I perform jagajjanani mahalakshmi dhyanam-who is saakshaat parameshwari i.e. parama shivaswaroopa,and Whose angakaanti is like vishuddha suvarna, Whose swaroopa isjyotirmaya, On whom suvarna taras reflected, Who wore reshmi peeta vastra, whose body is decorated with anargha aabhooshanas, In whose hands maatulinga phala,suvarna kalasha and kanakamaya kamala pushpa, Who is prasavitri of whole brahmaanda, Who is called aadya shakti, and Who is in vaamaanka of bhagavaan vishnu.

Chandrala mahatmya
Sookshma roopa
!! !!